Network load Solarwinds SAM

I am monitoring 300 nodes and NIC statistics on SAM server shows 3.0Mbps average receive and 1.0Mbps average transmit.

You should probably host monitoring serve on client's side

Thank you! I wanted to do this anyway, but we want to monitor it from a single location in our Datacenter, wich is not possible as per your answer.

Thank you! I wanted to do this anyway, but we want to monitor it from a single location in our Datacenter, wich is not possible as per your answer.

It all really depends on the number of nodes being monitored across those slow links, how many applications, and what the polling method being used is. What kind of link is this that you're running, a 56k? How many hosts on the other side of that link are you wanting to monitor?

The link we are running is an Sattelite link, so the speeds are insanely slow. We have a couple of server on this locations, 2 or 3, and a couple of switches and UPS's. And one application. So we can assume 10-20 devices. On the locations, we will be  deploying an SolarWinds instance with server, database and console. And we will be doing this on a few locations. We want to be able to at least manage the user accounts and settings of those locations, from our central datacentre, and if possible also be able to see the data from those locations.